[Cialug] actiontec modem with high load

[Dave Weis]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:02:38AM -0600, Dave Weis wrote:
>>
>> Ever seen what happens to an Actiontec DSL modem with 10 gigs a day of
>> traffic?
>
> I'm surprised that's even possible. Amazing what 1.5Mbps can do.

It's a 7 meg connection.

>> BusyBox v0.61.pre (2005.04.22-01:13+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
>> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
>>
>> # uptime
>>   1:51pm  up  1:51, load average: 2.00, 1.97, 1.91
>>
>> Ouch!
>
> Back when I was still running Qwest firmware on mine it seemed to
> always have a load average of 1.0. I think it's the way they
> do monitoring of stuff that creates such a high load.  However, now
> that I've got OpenWrt on this box it maintains a much more reasonable
> load, usually about 0.0.

I was digging around for a while, is it on the same site as the other 
openwrt stuff?


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